War and Peace
Lecture Series Highlights Current Events and Global Conflicts
The War and Peace series offers insights on a multitude of current issues through film, lecture, and panel discussion. The series is free and open to the public.
Events are Tuesdays, 5:30-6:50 p.m. in Ives 101 on campus. Discussion section leaders include Denny Bozman-Moss, John Kincheloe and Rim Zahra. For more information about the series, visit https://www.sonoma.edu/warandpeace/. Parking is $5-$8 on campus.
Sept. 8
State Crimes against Democracy
Peter Phillips, SSU Professor of Sociology and Former National Director of Project Censored
Sept. 15
The Relevance of the United Nations
Rashmi Singh, SSU Professor Emeritus in Humanities and Peace Studies and current President of the United Nations Association of Sonoma County
Sept. 22
Film: "The Day After Trinity" 1981
Jon Else, filmmaker
(This year marks the 70th anniversary of the use of atomic weapons in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.)
Sept. 29
The Science of War (and Peace)
Lynn Cominsky, SSU Professor of Physics
Oct. 6
America as Global Vigilante: Foreign Policy, Public Opinion, and Hollywood Mythmaking
Marco Calavita, SSU Professor of Communications Studies
Oct. 13
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Historical Context and Personal Reflections
Therese Mughannam Nicholas Walrath, Chuck Sher, and Laure Reichek, Peace Activists
Oct. 20
The Case for an Enforceable International Bill of Rights
Kirk Boyd, Lawyer, Legal Activist and Executive Director of the International Bill of Rights
Oct. 27
Peace through Sustainability
Jason Mark, Journalist and Organic Farmer
Nov. 3
Internet Technology: Liberating or Controlling
Farid Farahmand, SSU Professor of Engineering Science
Nov. 10
Veteran's Panel
Three speakers will join us for a panel discussion
Nov. 17
Peace and Protest Song, Literature and Art
Tim Wandling, SSU professor of English
Nov. 24
Film: "Into the Current: Burma's Political Prisoners" (2012)
Jeanne Hallacy, filmmaker
Dec. 1
Nonviolence and the New Paradigm
Michael Nagler, UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus of Peace Studies and President of Metta Center for Non Violence
Dec. 8
Global Governance, People Power and Nonviolent Solutions (2014 presentation via YouTube)
Dr. Cynthia Boaz
Dec. 15